Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
TACITUSFear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
More Tacitus Quotes
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
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It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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